Project Scheduler

The Walsh Group - Walsh Construction & Archer Western•Mount Pleasant, WI

About The Position

The Walsh Group is seeking a Project Scheduler for its Data Center Group in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The role develops, maintains, and analyzes project schedules in coordination with project management, superintendents, and subcontractors. It also coordinates project controls, evaluates schedule risks and changes, documents impacts on project cost and timelines, and supports project budget forecasting. The scheduler leads project scheduling meetings, prepares periodic reports, and performs claim mitigation, estimating, and contingency planning. Some travel is required. Walsh describes itself as a fourth-generation, family-owned, fast-growing company that aims to offer a small-company feel with large-company backing. It highlights challenging work, an innovative problem-solving environment, supportive managers, growth and development opportunities, career flexibility, and opportunities to work and live across the United States.

Requirements

3–5 years of project scheduling experience.
Primavera experience is required; P6 is preferred.
Understand baseline schedules, progress schedules, recovered schedules, total float, critical paths, predecessors, successors, near-critical paths, float trending, percent complete, float ownership, and constraints.
Claim experience is required.
Time impact analysis experience is required.
Ability to make confident, timely, fact-based decisions across a broad range of resources.
Demonstrated multitasking experience while working in large teams and solving complex problems.
Some travel is required.

Nice To Haves

Civil Engineering or Construction Management degree.
Primavera P6 experience.

Responsibilities

Develop a baseline schedule in coordination with project management, superintendents, and subcontractors.
Use established best practices and scheduling software to implement, maintain, and analyze the project schedule, including coding and loading resources, costs, and general sequencing information.
Coordinate project controls to assess risk in accordance with established best practices and standards.
Prepare risk and impact assessments of schedule changes and present them to the project team.
Analyze changes to the project schedule and their impacts on cost and timeline.
Ensure project change orders and delays are documented, analyzed, and reviewed.
Communicate impacts on the project timeline and cost.
Lead project scheduling meetings and ensure appropriate project management representation.
Prepare detailed weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and distribute them to appropriate staff.
Work with accounting personnel to forecast and manage the project budget and its relationship to the project schedule.
Perform claim mitigation and estimating, and prepare what-if models and possible contingency plans.